Tyson's article on Robert F. Williams

I am not sure how many were like me and was unaware of other civil rights leaders like Robert F. Williams. Tyson uses Williams’ life to show the necessity of seeing the non-violent civil rights movement and the Black Power movement as coming from similar circumstances and neither one being more acceptable than the other. Going beyond that, I was curious to know how other felt about the time that Williams spent in Cuba, North Vietnam, and China. It is understandable that the government would make concessions to Williams if he had vital information about the people he had been interacting with, but to let him back into the country and give him a position at a University? What makes the government so sure that he was not influenced by what he experienced since he technically was with the enemy? I am not personally trying to pass judgment that it was wrong, just merely trying to think outside of the box.